6/ The main headline of the Cass Review was about unproven lack of evidence, now there might not be as great an evidence base as would be liked but the way the review sorted through its potential evidence base is quite bizarre

4/ However there are major issues with the review, while Cass talks of toxic debate, this appears to be mainly window dressing to create the appearance of taking a sensible middle ground approach

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🆕Joint blog by Cllr David Fothergill, Chair, LGA Community Wellbeing Board & William Roberts, Chief Executive of Royal Society for Public Health, highlighting the need to build a public health workforce fit for the future.

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Life course epidemiology and public health

TLDR
1. Start early
2. Start way upstream
3. Shift contexts and structures
4. Relying on individual behaviour change later in life is very far from optimal

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Investing in bereavement care as a public health priority

no disagreements from me
But
1 the # of things I (or countless others) can make a 'PH priority' is limitless
2 my actual ability to invest is not limitless
3 currently a zero sum game, or actually a negative sum game

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“ COVID-19 Virus Can Persist in the Body More Than a Year after Infection:
Lancet study solidifies evidence of long-term viral persistence after COVID; demonstrates urgency of sustained research into the chronic health consequences of the virus”
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The IFS evaluation showed reduced hospital admissions far beyond the 0-5 ages. ifs.org.uk/publications/h…

I found that council Sure Start spending was associated with school readiness measures. ideas.repec.org/p/osf/socarx/r…

This film is a wake up call to the realities of emotional, spiritual and physical abuse in churches. Matt & Beth Redman outline their experiences at Soul Survivor with Mike Pilavachi. A tough watch but it's important.
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I still think the health impacts, especially for boys, were one of the biggest and unexpected differences. But this is cool too. Language needed for this prob helps with social & emotional health. Parenting is hard - life sat drops when kids 0-5 & teens - lag impact is 8 years

NEW: Sure Start, England’s first large programme to provide holistic support to families with children under five, greatly improved disadvantaged children’s GCSE results.

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So looking at the write up by Camilla Turner you might be led to believe there's some serious scandal around Pfizer

A few employees social media posts jumped the gun before regulatory approval

Another non story of catnip for anti-vaxxers from the Telegraph

Not quite the drama #UsforThemUK makes this out to be. It certainly does not rule the vaccine as unsafe just that they promoted before they had a licence without all the data. Shame really there is no regulation body for groups like UFT

Interesting paper. I had a look at the study and methods, and I think the Mail article is pretty misleading.

Overall, the prevalence of 'gender non-contentedness' did indeed fall. That doesn't mean that 'most gender confused children grow out of it' 1/n